“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” — Anne Bradstreet

Robert D. Crane: “Allah converted me to Islam when I was five years old, and again through a religious experience when I was 21, but I did not know there were other persons in the world who understood what Allah showed me until I met an old man in Bahrain who told me that there is a word for what I worshiped, and this is “Allah.” I figured that all Muslims could not be bad, as I had thought before, if this man was so good and was an admitted Muslim. I did not choose to become a Muslim. I am and have always been a Muslim, but did not know it self-consciously until I was 50 years old.” Hikmah dari seorang converter (muallaf), perjalanan iman itu panjang sekali…

“The culture of Islam aimed not at beautifying and refining the accessories of human life. It aimed at beautifying and exalting human life itself.” Marmaduke Pickthall

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” — Robert H. Schuller

“I use my logic and experience to come to a pessimistic conclusion – I use my willpower and my faith to come to the optimistic.”

“It’s better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.”

Master Thesis Project

The Patterns of Adaptive Learning Study
A group of researchers who, for a number of years, have been examining the relation between the learning environment and early adolescents academic and emotional well being.

Online Scientific Resources

Criticalia
Criticalia is the academic forum of Mark Hobart; is concerned with critical approaches to the non-Western world in the human sciences, especially in Anthropology, Cultural and Media Studies broadly understood. The aim is to question and to find alternativ